Re: OCR/barcode reliability

At 9:21 PM -0400 6/2/04, David Mertz wrote:
>On Jun 2, 2004, at 8:01 PM, Arthur Keller wrote:
>>Barcodes are also more reliable than OCR.
>
>I find this claim unlikely if we are talking about OCR fonts like
>OCR-A. At the least it is not supportable without some empirical
>evidence. Strong counter-evidence is provided by the banking
>industry, who process literally billions of checks every day, with
>extremely low error rates, using OCR fonts.

Banks use MICR not straight OCR. That's Magnetic Ink. And the MICR
encoding is more redundant that straight OCR is.

Best regards,
Arthur

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